This is a safe Labour seat so it is premature to draw any national conclusions from this result. What is notable is that only 26 per cent of the registered voters bothered to turn out on a reasonably mild autumn day. Three quarters of the people could not be bothered to stroll down to the polling station and take a few minutes to vote! I suspect that the November election for Police Commissioner will produce an even worse turn-out.Back in the 1950s over eighty per cent of the population voted in national elections and up to sixty percent in local contests.More civic education in schools , please and SOMEBODY has to get unemployed people to participate in the democratic process.